On Sunday February 10th Maine will hold its presidential primary caucuses. Because Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama has risen so far, so fast many voters are not as familiar with his background as they would like to be.
In his books Barack Obama has told the story of the family into which he was born, about a father from Africa whom he barely knew and about his white American mother from Kansas who along with his father were college students in Hawaii. By age 6 young Barack was already living in Jakarta with his mother and his Indonesian step father before abruptly moving back to Hawaii at age 10 to be raised by his maternal grandparents when his mother and her second husband divorced. His “birthright,” says Barack Obama, was that he was loved and received a good education.
Over the years Barack Obama had bonding experiences with white and black relatives and with Asian family members amidst an understandable struggle to find his own identity. Through it all he developed a keen ability to understand and to resonate with people of various ethnic backgrounds. Barack Obama worked his way through the racial complexities into which he was born to graduate Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School and become president of the Harvard Law Review. He served in the Illinois State Senate for 8 years and in 2004 won a 70 % landslide election to become a United States Senator. Barack Obama has had 46 years of personal experience in understanding how perceptions of ethnicity and judgments about race can divide people and he is uniquely qualified to bring a sense of unity and common purpose and common sense back to America. He alone has the background and the extraordinary intelligence and communication skills necessary to appropriately reintroduce the most powerful country on the planet, a country founded on the ideas of personal freedom and equality of opportunity, our country, the United States of America, to the rest of the world.

It was in 1963 (when Obama was just 2 years old) on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech that included the familiar phrase of "not being judged by the color of one's skin but by the content of one's character." That speech, of course, helped prompt passage of the 1964 US Civil rights Act and the next year, King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. If the people of America elect Barack Obama as their 44th President in November of this year King's dream will have become much more than just a dream.
Some have said that Barack Obama's opposition to America initiating the Iraq war is a “fairytale” and that his position on the war been “inconsistent.”
On October 2, 2002 at the Federal Plaza in Chicago Senator Barack Obama, then an Illinois state senator, delivered these remarks:
"I stand before you as someone who is not opposed to war in all circumstances. The Civil War was one of the bloodiest in history, and yet it was only through the crucible of the sword, the sacrifice of multitudes, that we could begin to perfect this union and drive the scourge of slavery from our soil.
I Don't Oppose All Wars
I don't oppose all wars. My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton's army. He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil. I don't oppose all wars. After September 11, after witnessing the carnage and destruction, the dust and the tears, I supported this administration's pledge to hunt down and root out those who would slaughter innocents in the name of intolerance, and I would willingly take up arms myself to prevent such tragedy from happening again.
Opposed to Dumb, Rash Wars
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne. What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income, to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression. That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.
On Saddam Hussein
Now let me be clear: I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power…. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him. But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors…and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history. I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars. So for those of us who seek a more just and secure world for our children, let us send a clear message to the president.
You Want a Fight, President Bush?
You want a fight, President Bush? Let's finish the fight with Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, through effective, coordinated intelligence, and a shutting down of the financial networks that support terrorism, and a homeland security program that involves more than color-coded warnings. You want a fight, President Bush? Let's fight to make sure that…we vigorously enforce a nonproliferation treaty, and that former enemies and current allies like Russia safeguard and ultimately eliminate their stores of nuclear material, and that nations like Pakistan and India never use the terrible weapons already in their possession, and that the arms merchants in our own country stop feeding the countless wars that rage across the globe. You want a fight, President Bush? Let's fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East, the Saudis and the Egyptians, stop oppressing their own people, and suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality, and mismanaging their economies so that their youth grow up without education, without prospects, without hope, the ready recruits of terrorist cells. You want a fight, President Bush? Let's fight to wean ourselves off Middle East oil through an energy policy that doesn't simply serve the interests of Exxon and Mobil. Those are the battles that we need to fight. Those are the battles that we willingly join. The battles against ignorance and intolerance. Corruption and greed. Poverty and despair."
Barack Obama delivered his powerful speech at the Federal Plaza in Chicago October 2, 2002 against the US beginning war in Iraq while later that same month Hillary Clinton voted for the authorization to begin US military action in Iraq. Once US troops were actually in Iraq and fighting a war, of course, it would be irresponsible for Obama to be against funding the troops. The key is that Barack Obama had the judgment to see the dumbness of the war in October 2002 and had the courage to clearly say so. Hillary Clinton did not and voted for funds authorizing the start the Iraq War. Judgment and courage are part of Barack Obama’s character, and so is a belief in a united America, in its people and in its future.

The tactic of trying to characterize Obama's war position as "a fairy tale" or as "inconsistent" is typical "Clinton politics" of saying and doing anything to try and get elected and clearly demonstrates why America so badly needs the enormous breath of fresh air Barack Obama brings to politics and to elective office.
Barack Obama’s opponents say he is too young and inexperienced to be President of the United States.
But it must be remembered that Theodore Roosevelt became America’s President at age 42, JFK was 43, and Bill Clinton 46, and on January 20, 2009 when our next president is sworn in Barack Obama will be 47 years old.
During the 1960 Democratic primaries Senator John Kennedy was repeatedly told he was much too inexperienced to become president by such notable members of the then “old guard” as Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, and Lyndon Johnson. Kennedy was told to wait his turn! But, of course JFK won the 1960 Democratic primary and went on to defeat Richard Nixon in the general election despite Nixon’s protest that “Kennedy is too young and inexperienced to be President.” It wasn’t true then about John F. Kennedy and it isn’t true now about Barack Obama.
Barack Obama has been in Washington D.C. long enough to know what needs to be changed and how to change it, and unlike his opponent he has already started doing some changing by refusing to accept money from lobbyists and political action committees. He has proven that being beholden to such money peddlers is not necessary. He raises money for his campaign directly from the people to whom he is accountable, people like you and me.
America needs Barack Obama and America needs him now!

Once America is introduced to Obama's muslim Uncle Odinga in Kenya and the Tony Rezko trial unfolds at the end of Feb in chicago, if the press bothers to cover this, then America will be introduced to a different side of Obama and we will learn about his background, which as of yet, the media has overlooked.

Obama's Muslim Uncle in Kenya has been a force with trying to interfer with the elections and the question America needs to know is how involved is Obama in any of this.

Same with Rezko - how involved was Obama with him and the house they purchased together.....

If any of this was Hillary, it would be front page news.....

Ellen, have you been inhaling what Bill didn't inhale? Slandering Obama with some made-up story about an Uncle Odinga is nutty. Even the Clintons would run away from a story as crazy as that.

Every political event that Mr. Obama attends is such a media savvy, scripted and orchestrated affair. His arrival, getting on the stage, greeting, the background faces, all of it with the help of camera work and lighting, done with perfect pitch and timing for the news cast footage, for the maximum effect-- like Hitler’s big frenzied rallies in Berlin─ using all the elements of the stagecraft. His image is so well manufactured for the consumption and the manipulation of the public, Mr. Obama’s politics looking more and more like a Hollywood production than a real life political event. While Mr. Obama’s message is about change, what Mr. Obama really does seemed to be steeped in corporate media that cheered us along in a very big way to the quagmire in Iraq. Mr. Obama also claims to be MLK and even JFK, without having done tiniest fraction of the vast accomplishments of MLK or JFK. Mr. Obama even lacks a sustentative legislative record. But for American media deeds have little value if you have the right image. I watch Mr. Obama’s rise in alarm for the sake of America’s future. His arrogance, his hubris is unsurpassed in American politics. I find him and his message without a clear political logic or details, more suited for TV audience, no discussion of issues, programs or policies, rather his speeches are full of name dropping and all sorts of claims, rich in platitudes and slogans. How come Mr. Obama’s embracing the Kennedy Camelot of the 60’s is considered going forward and if Hillary Clinton looks back to the 90’s for guidance─ now that’s considered going backwards?
Mr. Obama used to be a very heavy smoker,untill recently, before he cleaned up his act including destroying his appointment books, while he was a two term state senator. I think he has health risks greater than of John Mccain (Mr. Obama's mother died young of cancer)having been a hevy smoker for so long. Remember Paul Tongus?

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Hillary and Bill Polarized the Nation!

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Obama wins in general election!

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